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From the Ted Talk by Jackson Katz: Violence against women -- it's a men's issue

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Because this isn't about individual perpetrators. That's a naive way to understanding what is a much deeper and more systematic soiacl problem. The preaetotrrps aren't these monsters who crawl out of the swmap and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the darkness. That's a very naive noiotn, right? Perpetrators are much more normal than that, and everyday than that. So the question is, what are we doing here in our society and in the world? What are the roles of various itiustnitons in helping to produce abusive men? What's the role of religious belief systems, the srtpos culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ehitctniy and how that intersects? How does all this work?

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Because this isn't about individual perpetrators. That's a naive way to understanding what is a much deeper and more systematic ______ problem. The ____________ aren't these monsters who crawl out of the _____ and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the darkness. That's a very naive ______, right? Perpetrators are much more normal than that, and everyday than that. So the question is, what are we doing here in our society and in the world? What are the roles of various ____________ in helping to produce abusive men? What's the role of religious belief systems, the ______ culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and _________ and how that intersects? How does all this work?

Solution

  1. notion
  2. perpetrators
  3. institutions
  4. social
  5. sports
  6. ethnicity
  7. swamp

Original Text

Because this isn't about individual perpetrators. That's a naive way to understanding what is a much deeper and more systematic social problem. The perpetrators aren't these monsters who crawl out of the swamp and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the darkness. That's a very naive notion, right? Perpetrators are much more normal than that, and everyday than that. So the question is, what are we doing here in our society and in the world? What are the roles of various institutions in helping to produce abusive men? What's the role of religious belief systems, the sports culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ethnicity and how that intersects? How does all this work?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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heterosexual people 2
domestic violence 2
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cognitive structure 2
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Important Words

  1. abusive
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  40. understanding
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